Conference misery::feline_v1

    How does it grow into the roof of the mouth???
    
    With the kinds of tongues that kittycats have, wouldn't they be
    able to remove it before it can `attach' to anything??
    
    Lightning always eats grass (all kinds) and has never had a problem.
    
    Could you explain furthur please?????
    
    
    Sandi (Lightning's & DejaVu's mom)
    
    
    

I wonder if this grass might just be native to your country?

Our Mocha loves to eat grass, and believe me I will check on this
as soon as I get home.

Did the vet say this was quite common?

Sorry for all the questions, but thanks for sharing the warning.

Barbara
< Note 1315.0 by SUBURB::TAYLORS "MINNIE" >
                             -< stroke of luck... >-

    
    A word of warning to you all.
    
    I took one of my boys (Dillan) to the vet for a check up (see note
    1255) and whilst examining him, the vet looked in his mouth to find
    a large blade of grass (the sort that is sort of sticky/spikey one
    side...or maybe both) stuck to the roof of his mouth.
    
    It was a good job I took him when I did because if this grass isn't
    removed straight away it "grows" into the roof of the mouth and
    they have to have quite a dramatic operation to get it out.
    
    I don't normally look in his mouth (never really had the need to
    except when occasionally administering medicines) but I certainly
    be checking both my boys from now on.
    
    Sharon Taylor
    Reading UK

This is not related to the current discussion, but it puzzles my
    non-technical mind how you people put the > in your notes which
    point to things said in another note.  Furthermore, how on earth
    do you get someone else's whole note into your own without retyping
    it.
    
    Sorry to put this in as a reply, but I've checked all the help commands
    which were of no help at all.
    

    There is a particularly bad type of "grass" in California called
    "witch grass" -- it forms little barbs on the sides and becomes
    semi-rigid as the grass dries.  You have to be on the lookout for
    it in mouths, ears, embedded in the skin, etc. at this time of year.
    
    Re: 3
    
    You can save a note with the save command.  Then use the include
    file command (I have a weird keyboard, but I hit pf4 to get the
    command prompt, then type inc file and the file name).
    Up/down/right/left arrow move you around in the text for adding
    and deleting things.
    
    Karen (CIRCUS:: and Sweetie and Holly)
    

    two other ways:
    
    When reading a note, type REPLY.  You now have two windows, the
    top one being the note you were reading.  Hit the DO key, on a
    vt220 keyboard it's labeled (top row), on a VT100 I think it's PF1.
    Type OTHER and you are now in that top window.  Select what you
    want, remove it, get back to your window with the same OTHER command
    and insert it.  or...
    
    When reading the note, type EXTRACT filename.  Then type REPLY filename
    and your reply will have that person's note in it.
    
    Sharon
    not in Reading, UK
    

    We had a related experience with Kimi once.
    
    We came home one day and found him apparently choking. My first
    thought was that he'd been poisoned (I always think that). We rushed
    him to the vet, who found KImi had half-swallowed a piece of grass
    of a type that we call cutty grass - it has tiny barbs all going
    in the same direction, so that it would go down his throat (part-way)
    but wouldn't come up agin when he tried to spit it out. Because
    of the barbs, the vet couldn't just pull it out. As Kimi was in
    distress, the vet gave him a general anaesthetic and got the grass
    out. It was a LARGE piece of grass! A traumatic experience for all
    concerned. It's the only time we've seen one of the boys under
    anaesthetic (when they were neutered they were conscious when I
    collected them), and it was awful to see Kimi looking like a dead
    cat. He was in a state when he came to, also.
    
    NO lasting harm done, and it has never happened again.
    
    SLP
    
    New Zealand

    Thanks for the info.  My Jackie-O is an indoor kitty but she loves
    for me to bring her fresh grass in the morning before I go to work.
    I will have to watch for "imbedded blades" of grass.
    
    thanks again
    Arlene

    
    Sandi - I think it is the roof of the mouth that grows round the
    grass rather than the other way round, as in if something embeds
    itself for long enough on the ground, grass will grow round it??
    
    Barbara - Maybe it is just native to UK, I don't really know but
    I'd look out for it anyway...it feels very rough and sort of
    sticky and spikey.  It is the spikes that embed themselves.
    and YES the vet said it is very common (unfortunately) so I now
    have panic attacks when I spot the boys having their daily dose
    of grass!
    
    Sharon T
    Reading UK